IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48202 accession number: C.2169-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Greyish-buff terracotta, decorated with lavender-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and white tin-glazes. The angel kneels on its right knee with its left knee forward, the upper part of its body and head turned to the viewer. It holds a pedestal and vase with a pricket for a candle balanced on its left knee. It has shoulder-length wavy hair with a lock falling over its forehead. Its wings project behind it, from either side of a circular hole in its back. It wears a gown with a collar and cross bands; over its left shoulder it has a cloak, draped across in front and looped up below its right hip; over its right shoulder there is a narrow drape which falls down in front and is held up to the pedestal in its right hand. The base is narrow and irregularly shaped. The face, hands and feet are pinkish-buff; the gown is blue with a white collar and yellow cross-bands; the right sleeve is white at the bottom and has a green lining; the cloak is yellow with a purple lining. The hair, wings, pedestal and vase are white. The base is purple. object type: terracotta painted in coloured tin-glazes title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's, 21 November 1902, lot 66; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher at Eastbourne in 1904. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48202 PEOPLE ------------------- angel SUBJECTS ------------------- candlestick kneeling candlestick kneeling TECHNIQUES ---------- Greyish-buff terracotta, decorated with lavender-blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and white tin-glazes. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Della Robbia, Giovanni DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 76 dimension: Width units: cm value: 49 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Colour title: Madonnas and Miracles. The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Giovanni della Robbia Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, La donazione Galeazzo Cora, Ceramiche dal medioevo al XIX secolo Les Della Robbia, Sculptures en terre cuite émaillée de la Renaissance italienne European Sculpture and Works of Art European sculpture and works of art 900-1900 Old Master Paintings including European Works of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2169_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_2169_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 672 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_2169_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg 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